Richard Johnston (Non-executive Director)
Richard was appointed to the Board in 2003. He is a partner of Camden Partners Holdings LLC, where he focuses on investments in the health care and business services sectors. Richard has over 40 years of investment experience and serves on the boards of Atricure, Inc, COHR Inc., Medivance Inc., Pharmanetics, Inc., and Webmedix Inc., all of which are Camden Partners’ portfolio companies. Previously, Richard was Vice President of Investments and a Director of The Hillman Company, an investment holding company with diversified operations, where he was employed from 1961 to 2000. From June 1970 he was responsible for deal origination and investor representative relations with numerous private equity financings, including HBO, Medical Care International and Rehab Services among many others in health care. Richard also managed marketable securities portfolios for Hillman entities, including small cap-portfolios, and originated and/or monitored limited partnership holdings in numerous private equity funds. He has been an advisor to several private equity funds, including Bridge Capital, Health Care Capital Partners and T. Rowe Price Threshold Funds.
Although Richard is not considered to be an independent Non-executive Director, he is a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees.
